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Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Results vs Effort

Yeah, president never got back
to us about Mondulkiri, so we will probably have to wait a week or two. That
means that I can email this week!

So for Skype I'm thinking I'll
get to the internet cafe at 8 AM on Saturday here which unless there are some
tricks that I can't see, would be either 8 or 9 PM on Friday night for you [correction: 7pm Central].

I have a bunch of pictures from cutting rice, but I took a
long video of the bamboo bridge and I guess it didn't turn on because I don't
have a video of it. It's kind of a struggle, since I cant see my screen, but I'm
sure I'll get to take a video of the bamboo bridge in the future. After all, I
have at least another month here.

Bamboo Bridge

Cutting Rice

So last week, I made a promise
at the end of the week that instead of getting happy with results from my work I would be happy with whether I worked hard or not. This was difficult at the end of last
week, though, since I had really good results from my work. However, I chose to instead look
back on areas where I could have improved. This week, I worked a lot harder,
but my results were terrible, because people have their agency. But since I
made that promise to myself, I instead looked at how I felt about what I did,
and I was happy. SO, I know that Heavenly Father would approve of my work, even
though it didn't have the best of outcomes. Looking to the future, though, we
will have to move back some baptismal dates, since they didn't show up to
church. Vannak was at a marriage, Kum On was just absent, and Ming Da was
referred to the sisters. Either way, this coming week will be better. You have
to have bad days/weeks to know what a good day/week is like. Cambodia is funner
than ever, and I am loving every second. Merry Christmas also ! The next time I
email, Christmas will already be past.